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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Tuesday, 16 July 2013 16:30
Recent days witnessed the conclusion of the 2013 rural youth entrepreneurship project contest, jointly hosted by Ningbo Municipal Party Committee, Ningbo Agricultural Affairs Office, Ningbo Science and Technology Bureau, Ningbo Agriculture Bureau, Ningbo Broadcasting and TV Group and Ningbo Office of Zhejiang Provincial Rural Credit Union. This is the first project contest for the youth in the city to address rural prosperity and development.
Among the 68 projects from the counties and districts, Zhu Shenghai’s “organic integration of three-dimensional ecological agricultural and e-commerce platform” was spoken highly by experts and finally won the Gold Medal of the contest.
According to a person in charge from Ningbo Municipal Party Committee, based on the four major fields of agriculture, industry and commerce, agricultural social service and new rural area construction, the contest offers two gold medals, two silver medals and 6 bronze ones, as well as three originality awards and 15 excellence awards. And all the award-winning projects will be recommended to compete in the Zhejiang rural youth entrepreneurship project contest.
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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 16 July 2013 16:30
Ningbo Port maintained a rising trend by conducting the operation on foggy days and seizing the sources of foreign-trade coal products, against the background of gloomy external economic situation and sluggish recovery of the domestic economy. Statistics from Ningbo Port and Shipping Management Bureau show that in the first half of 2013, the cargo throughput, container throughput and its growth rate of Ningbo Port rank among the top of the major domestic ports.
Statistics show that in the first half of the year, Ningbo Port realized the cargo throughput of 241 million tons, an increase of 8.42% over the same period last year. To be specific, it obtained the foreign-trade cargo throughput of 136.6182 million tons, an increase of 11.75%; and a total container throughput of 8.2722 million TEUs, an increase of 6%.
As the cargo throughput grew steadily, such bulk cargo such as coal, iron ore, and crude oil all showed a rising trend.
Subject to the overall situation of foreign trade, the container transport production in Ningbo Port was clearly affected. However, by adjusting the course layout and developing the water-water transit operations, the container throughput continues to increase. After further communication with the shipping companies, and optimizing and adjusting shipping layout, Ningbo Port now has 232 shipping routes, including 12 newly added or adjusted ones and 120 ocean routes. The monthly container flight amounts to 1340, up by 19.7%. The port continues to promote regional market development and operation, with a good start for Ningbo-Zhapu internal route and a rapid growth of transit business for Fuzhou sub-route. In terms of the Yangtze River line, the business volume of such companies as Cosco, CSCL, and Evergreen showed a rising trend.
Read more: Economic statistics in Ningbo Port...
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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Tuesday, 16 July 2013 16:29
The Ministry of Commerce announced on its official website on July 1 that the official investigations for anti-dumping and anti-subsidy for wine products imported from the European Union. With one week going by, Ningbo, which has the 3rd largest wine import port and the largest entity of imported wine market, shows no sign of being greatly affected. It is reported that some wine importers in Ningbo boast of adequate supplies and the new policy will not have a big impact in the short term.
Most wine business say they are confident as they have adequate stocks. The owner of a company engaged in French wine products said, compared to the prices of other products, that of the wine product has a large elasticity, so that even if the anti-dumping tax is imposed, its impact on the market will not be too large. One of the staff of Yongyu Imported Wine Center said that they had completed the bulk import from the EU as planned and they have an adequate inventory now. as the policy is still at the start-up stage, it will have little substantial impact on the current market, so the company has no intention and measures to change the prices so far.
Read more: Ningbo wine import market not affected
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Category: Ningbo Business
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Published: Tuesday, 16 July 2013 16:29
Recently, the Ningbo Customs launched the special category adjustment program for 35 small and medium foreign trade enterprises. By retaining a Class A grade for them, it aims to help the related enterprises to tide over their financial straits and promote the development of foreign trade.
Due to the severe export situation, rising costs, shrinking orders and profit decline in 2012, 103 Class A foreign trade enterprises in Ningbo failed to reach the goal of completing an import and export volume of $500,000 or obtaining 3000 declaration forms. In accordance with the regulations for classified administration of the customs, these enterprises should have been downgraded as Class B.
To promote the local economic development in Ningbo, and to help and support small and medium foreign trade enterprises, Ningbo Customs decided after repeated study to launch the special category adjustment program. The 35 small and medium foreign trade enterprises, which meet some related requirements, can retain their Class A rating rather than being downgraded to Class B, and continue to enjoy the preferences for customs clearance.